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Reversibility
The ability to take over an IT service
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Short definition
An organised means of taking a service back in-house or transferring it to another supplier, with the data and other resources needed to keep it working. It requires people, technical capabilities, funding and contractual arrangements, supported by tests suited to the service.
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Intuition
Preparing an exit includes funding the people and operations needed to take over the service.
Related analyses
- Leaving Microsoft, 1/7Documented experience from Schleswig-Holstein and the CNRS.
Primary sources
- French cloud-at-the-centre circular, 31 May 2023R4 and R10: resources for reversibility and technical or functional dependencies.